Planning Careers and Employability

Planning Careers and Employability

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN...........................................................................................3
REFLECTION...............................................................................................................................10
Gap Analysis.............................................................................................................................10
Current Recruitment Process In The Hotel...............................................................................11
Applications for real employment opportunities.......................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
There are specific skills which are required in a person to be a part of employ in any
company is employability skills. These skills have to be problem solving, planning, organizing,
self- management, technological friendly, etc. These are few skills which an individual must
have so that the company can profit from them so that there is a growth of the individual in an
industry and can achieve their personal goals and aims of life. Team work is another important
skill which is required in the person for growth of the company so that all the employees can
work as one so that there is growth of the individual and the company.
Travelodge was founded in 1939 and the headquarters are in California, United States.
This company is having 435 properties which includes 31.005 rooms as of 2018. This company
is spread across 8 countries and is going to expand more in the future because of the aim and
objectives they have for the company. The most important skill which is required in this
company for being an employee is communication because there are a lot of customers who are
not booking and coming directly for check in's therefore it is very important for the company to
entertain them properly.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
What do I
want/need
to learn
and why?
What will I do to achieve this? What resources
or support will I
need?
What will my
success
criteria be?
Target
dates for
review
and
completio
n
Manage
People
I will learn the skills of managing
people by training and developing
myself to increase the efficiency
and making more effective
control over other people
(Cottrell, 2015).
I need to have an
effective coach
who can guide me
to increase my
knowledge and
provide me with
enough
information so
The skills and
knowledge
have to be
implemented
by adopting it
in the
personality of
the manager as
4 months

that I can manage
people and
increase the
relationship with
them to satisfy
their need.
managing
people is very
essential part of
the social life
and every
person should
have an
effective
knowledge and
skills to do that.
I will have to analyze all the
factors which are important to
achieve my objectives and make a
strategic plan to move towards
that path so that I can increase the
efficiency and attain the skills to
manage people on my own
effectively (Rossier and et.al.,
2017). After that will determine
where I lack in the process in
managing the people in the hotel
effectively so that I have to work
upon that area to increase, my
personal skills.
I will then communicate with my
team and the staff member of the
hotel to get the second opinion so
that they can help me to improve
my skills and also tell me what all
skills I am lacking so that the staff
members can help me to increase
I need to have a
good leader so
that I can get a
proper support
form them and
also learn the
skills and gain the
knowledge what
they have which
will help me in
my future to
management the
people like they
do. I will also
learn how to
influence the
people so that
they increase the
willingness to do
something which
will increase the
It will help the
employees to
increase the
efficiency of
the
organization
and maintain
the quality of
the services
with the help of
managing
people. It will
also help the
hotel to gain
more
information
about the issues
and problems
which the
customers and
employees had